Max Schwab (geologist)

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Max Schwab (born March 1, 1932 in Halle ) is a German geologist . He was a professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Max Schwab is the son of the Jewish merchant and cattle dealer Julius Schwab from Halle, who was arrested after the November pogroms in 1938 and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp . After emigrating to the Netherlands, he was arrested again and murdered in Auschwitz in September 1942 . His twin brother Günther Schwab (1932–1996) was also a geologist. Max Schwab survived the Holocaust with his brother in Halle (his mother had converted to Judaism and he was classified as a "half-Jew" by the National Socialists ). Since 1939 Max Schwab was no longer allowed to attend a public school. At the instigation of his mother, he received private lessons until the end of the Second World War and in 1950 passed his Abitur at the Thomas Müntzer High School in Halle. Before starting his geology studies at the University of Halle, he worked as an excavation assistant in the Geiseltal . In 1950 he changed his place of study and went to the Humboldt University in Berlin. As part of the diploma thesis , which was completed with distinction and supervised by Serge von Bubnoff and Günter Möbus , Max Schwab dealt with the North Lusatian Grauwackenformation near Weißenberg . As an assistant he went back to the Martin Luther University in Halle and shifted his work to the investigation of the Permo - Carboniferous sediments in the area around Halle as well as the stratigraphic and tectonic development of paleozoic strata in the Harz .

Max Schwab received his doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Halle in 1961 . After the third university reform, the Geological and Paleontological Institute of the Martin Luther University in Halle was dissolved in 1967/68 and the training of geologists in the GDR was transferred to the Bergakademie Freiberg and the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . In the period that followed, Max Schwab played a key role in the reorganization of geoscientific teaching at the Martin Luther University.

In 1970 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on contributions to the tectonics of the Rheno-Hercynian Zone in the GDR with special consideration of the conditions in the Lower Harz . A year later he was granted a teaching qualification , and in 1978 he was appointed university lecturer for regional geology . In 1983 he received the professorship for regional geology. From 1978 he was first acting head, from 1984 then head of the geological science department and the Geiseltal Museum in the geography section of the Martin Luther University.

After the political change , Max Schwab played a key role in founding the Institute for Geological Sciences, where he taught until his retirement in 1997. In addition to lectures on regional and general geology and tectonics, his teaching duties also included field training for geology students.

Max Schwab mainly dealt with the geology of the area around Halle as well as the geology and tectonics of the Harz Mountains and is co-author of a monograph on the geology of Saxony-Anhalt .

In the GDR he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Geosciences . After the political change in 1989, Max Schwab held numerous tasks, including: Member of the Evaluation Commission of the Science Council, Member of the Science Council, Member of the German State Committee for the International Geoscience Program (IGCP), Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Joint Geoscientific Tasks at the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research , Member of the German National Committee for Geological Sciences, member of the DFG Senate Commission for Geoscientific Community Research and expert reviewer of the German Research Foundation (DFG). He was chairman of the Society for Geological Sciences.

In 1979 he received the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal . In 1991 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1997 he received the Hans Stille Medal . In 1999 he became an honorary member of the Geological Association and was honored with the Serge von Bubnoff Medal .

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Max Schwab was author or co-author of 152 publications as well as numerous unpublished research reports.

  • Tectonic investigations in the permocarbon north of Halle / Saale , dissertation, 1961, Halle / Saale
  • Contributions to the tectonics of the Rhenohercynian zone area of ​​the GDR with special consideration of the conditions in the Lower Harz , Habilitation, 1970, Halle / Saale
  • with Hans Joachim Franzke Harz - eastern part and Kyffhäuser Kristallin , Geological Guide Collection, Volume 104, Brothers Borntraeger 2011
  • with Günter Krumbiegel Saalestadt Halle and surroundings: a geological guide , 2 volumes, 1974
  • with Gerhard H. Bachmann , Bodo-Carlo Ehling, Rudolf Eichner: Geology of Saxony-Anhalt , Stuttgart, Schweitzerbart 2008
  • The geological subsurface of the city of Halle and the Halle marketplace fault , in Werner Freitag, Andreas Ranft, Katrin Minner (editor) History of the city of Halle , Halle, 2006, pp. 78–90
  • with Knoth delimitation and geological structure of the Halle-Wittenberger-Scholle , Geologie, Volume 21, 1971, pp. 1153–1172
  • The geological structure of the Hallesches Porphyry Complex , Herzynia, Volume 1, 1964, pp. 167-185
  • as editor: The old Paleozoic and Variscan development in northern Central Europe , 9th round table on geodynamics of the European Variscous, Wernigerode 1993, Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, 1993
  • with Hans Kugler, Konrad Billwitz General Geology, Geomorphology and Soil Geography , Gotha 1980, 1988

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial Book for the Dead of the Holocaust, Halle
  2. ↑ Zeit-Geschichten.de: stumbling blocks in Halle: Julius & Selma Schwab , accessed November 17th, 2014
  3. ↑ Silvia Zöller: Holocaust survived thanks to many helpers . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 12, 2007
  4. ↑ a b c d Jörg Hacker, Karl-Armin Tröger : Prof. Dr. Max Schwab (Halle / Saale) on his 80th birthday , Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geoswissenschaften, Volume 34, Halle 2012, pp. 116–118.
  5. ^ Tectonic investigations in the Permocarbon north of Halle / Saale . Freiberger Forschungshefte, C, Volume 192,2, 1961
  6. ^ Norbert Hauschke The geological-palaeontological collections of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  7. ↑ Member entry of Max Schwab at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 1, 2016.
  8. ^ Laudation ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schwab, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall